The Franciscan sanctuary of La Verna, located a few kilometers from Chiusi della Verna, in the province of Arezzo and diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, within the national park of the Casentinesi Forests, Monte Falterona and Campigna, is famous for being the place in which St. Francis of Assisi would have received the stigmata on 14 September 1224